[Rarebooks] FS: Randall Jarrell MANUSCRIPT of his most famous poem, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $6000 NET

JARRELL, Randall. LITTLE FRIEND, LITTLE FRIEND with his most famous poem 
in his hand. New York: Dial Press, 1945. First Edition. His second book 
published in an edition of 2000 copies. INSCRIBED on the front free 
endpaper for Dorothea Garritson and SIGNED by the poet below Jarrell's 
handwritten poem, the last poem of the book and perhaps his best known, 
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," with its famous last line: "When 
I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose." Slight uneven 
sunning to the boards from the missing sections of the dustwrapper. Near 
Fine in a Fair dustwrapper lacking most of the spine and with a few 
small tears and chips.

In his review of this book Robert Lowell said it "contains some of the 
best poems on modern war, better, I think, and far more professional 
than those of Wilfred Owen, which, though they seem pathetically eternal 
to us now, are sometimes amateurish and unfinished. The determined, 
passive, sacrificial lives of the pilots, inwardly so harmless and 
outwardly so destructive, are ideal subjects for Jarrell" ("With Wild 
Dogmatism," NEW YORK TIMES, 7 October 1951). (#017485)        $8,500

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